Form Follows Function: Teaching Kitchen Facilities | June 22, 2022

A teaching kitchen is a learning laboratory for life skills that can be designed in many different ways. The facility is just one component of that design and can range from expensive built-in kitchens to low-cost virtual kitchens and everything in between. There is an option for every budget and setting – including from your own home. 

In this hour-long webinar, we’ll take a look at what we like to call "the hardware" of a teaching kitchen – the physical and virtual space options and opportunities and the essential tools and equipment that enable life skills learning.

The TKC’s Chef-Architect will walk you through the defining features of different types of facilities while guiding you in how to determine the best model for your TK program.

We’ll then hear from three organizations with unique teaching kitchen models in different settings (University, Primary Care, Library), some of whom shifted to teaching virtually from a home kitchen during the pandemic.

Join us for this webinar as we explore:

• Why teaching kitchen facility design is important
• How to plan a teaching kitchen space to suit your program goals and resources
• Models of existing teaching kitchen spaces in different settings

Host: Christine Hamann, MBA, MPH, Teaching Kitchen Collaborative

Speakers: Anthony Imamura, Chef, MedStar Health & Teaching Kitchen Collaborative
Linda Shiue, MD, Chef, Kaiser Permanente
Caity Rietzen, Free Library of Philadelphia
Wendelin Slusser, MD, MS, University of California, Los Angeles
Joey Martin, Chef, University of California, Los Angeles